Downloads

Over the years, many people ask us for copies of presentations we have done or would like to obtain copies of tools that we come up with and like to share with others. To help facilitate our response to these requests, we have created this download section as part of our knowledge-base for the EMS industry to use as needed.

Please feel free to download any of these presentations or tools. All we ask in return is that if you decide to use or share this content either in presentations or with others that you please properly footnote us as the source of the content… thank you.

Presentation Downloads

2012 Best Practices in EMS – Beyond the Basics

A Best Practice is the belief that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. The idea is that with proper processes, checks, and testing, a desired outcome can be delivered with fewer problems and unforeseen complications.

This is a follow up rebuttal webinar between David Shrader and Jonathan Washko in response to Alan Craig’s (from Toronto EMS) clinical arguments for a tiered ALS/BLS EMS system design. Watch the recorded webinar here. Click on the link to the left to get the Power Point Slidesfrom the presentation. Sponsored by the EMS Chiefs of Canada (EMSCC) and FirstWatch.

California Ambulance Association 2010 Annual Conference

This lecture helps EMS organizations better understand when they have achieved HPEMS. Topics include defining HPEMS, understanding how to build KPI’s, trending, benchmarking and available technologies.

American Ambulance Association 2009 Annual Conference

This was a lecture designed to help EMS agencies better comprehend why they need to look more closely at the HPEMS model. This lecture also goes into the who, what, when, where and why of the various EMS system designs and their pros and cons.

Pinnacle 2007

Pinnacle 2007

This lecture discusses HPEMS finance and reviews the approach to EMS finance typically used by national EMS agencies. It also provides an example of why an all ALS system is cheaper to operate then a tiered or mixed ALS / BLS system.

Zoll Summit 2006

Zoll Summit 2006

This power point presentation details the variables and calculations that go into a simple Temporal Demand Analysis used to help predict the number of resources needed to meet a certain level of response service reliability.